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Record: MDI52O02NE00003

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Matapesatakun Bay Area

Latitude: 51° 14' 36.49"    Longitude: -90° 34' 14.29"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 669562.88   Northing: 5679704.08    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 52O02NE

Point Location Description: Drill hole BL-86-3 located 800m north of rectangular bay on extreme north end of Matapesatakun Bay.

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to the north end of Matapesatakun Bay, which is located about 35km southwest of Pickle Lake. From there, traverse overland to the occurrence, about 800 m north of the extreme north end of Matapesatakun Bay. Boat access is possible via a lengthy boat ride from Doghole Bay access point.

Exploration History

1985-1986: Golden Terrace Resources Corp carried out airborne geophysical survey, geological mapping, rock and soil geochemical survey and diamond drilling. Two diamond drill holes intersected gold mineralization. 1996: Moss Resources Inc. drilled 1 DDH totalling 152.1 m. 2008: Property was staked by Norcanex Resources Ltd. and Tri Origin optioned the claim. 2009: Tri Origin Exploration contracted Aeroquest to complete 1303.38 line-km of helicopter time domain electromagnetic and magnetics on the Sky Lake property. 2010: Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. completed a mineral soil/humus and a small mapping and rock geochemistrysurveys over sections of the claim group which were determined by interpreting the VTEM data from the Aeroquest survey flown in 2009. 2011: Norcanex Resources Ltd. changes its name to Litrinor Metals Inc. 2011 Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. completed cutting of a 39.3 line kilometer grid,staked additional contiguous claims to the east and optioned two claims from Manicouagan Minerals Inc completing a soil/humus survey over them. Over the cut grid 15.8 km of detailed Induced Polarization and 39.3 km of Total Field Magnetics were completed. 2012: Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. completed a mineral soil and humus sample survey on portions of the property. A total of 346 humus and 433 mineral samples were collected plus a 7 hole diamond drill program totaling 1180 m. 2015: Kitrinor Metals Inc tranferred 80% ownership of claims to Tri Origin. Tri completed outcrop mapping, cut three north-south metric lines totaling 4,880 meters for Dipole-dipole, IP survey and completed an additional (73 soil, 127 humus) geochemical survey.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Meen-Dempster

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - This occurrence consists of 3 diamond-drill core intersections cut in 2 diamond-drill holes. All three intersections are contained within a succession of mixed intermediate to mafic tuffaceous metavolcanics and siltstones. All three intersections are quartz veins, but each quartz vein has a different mineralogical composition.

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jun 15, 2020 (B Nelson) - The first intersection made was in diamond-drill hole number BL 85-2. The intersection assayed 0.062 ounce gold per ton (2.126 g/t Au) over 0.25 m from 44.19 m to 44.44 m down the hole. This intersection is a quartz tourmaline vein with possible traces of pyrite (Assessment report 52O02NE0008). The second and third intersections were cut in diamond-drill hole number BL 86-3. The upper intersection, from 140.7 m to 141.42 m down the hole, is described in the drill log as an interval of core containing up to 60 percent 2-to-4 mm quartz-carbonate veins with no observed sulphides. The interval returned an assay value of 1400 ppb Au over 0.72 m. The lower intersection, cut between 286.05 m and 286.86 m down hole BL 86-3 returned an assay of 2900 ppb Au and/or 0.06 ounce gold per ton over 0.81 m. (2900 ppb Au converts to 0.085 ounce gold per ton.) This intersection is described in the drill log as white-to-clear quartz-carbonate-pyrrhotite vein. The pyrrhotite comprises 30 to 40 percent of the vein (Assessment report 52O02NE00070.

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Cat Lake-Pickle Lake, geological compilation series, Kenora and Thunder Bay districts

Publication Number: M2218 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1976

Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W., Troup W.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

MonoMap - Geology of the Cat Lake-Pickle Lake area, districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: R207 Scale:     Date: 1982

Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Map - Precambrian geology, Muskegsagagen-Bancroft lakes area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: M2507 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1986

Author: Stott G.M., Wilson A.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Mono - Mineral Deposits of the Central Portion of Uchi Subprovince, Volume 1, Meen Lake to Kesagiminnis Lake Portion

Publication Number: OFR5869 Scale:     Date: 1993

Author: Seim G.Wm.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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